I’m taking an editing break this weekend.
It won’t be easy because I want to find out what’s coming next in Brantner’s epic sci fi saga, but I NEED to. I can’t be at my best seven days a week for four weeks in a row. Editing is an exacting, painstaking process. If I manage to do it even six hours a day, I’m OVER-working my brain in a specific way.
AN EARLY CHRISTMAS PRESENT HAS ARRIVED
Yesterday I got an adorable new metal sign from Hannah McCrane, the former co-host of our (now defunct) podcast EVER NEW.
The second I tried to put it up, I got enthusiastic “help” from the goats. Wish I could have captured the event on my cellphone, but my hands were busy tying the sign to their fence.
In Other News:
I just picked up some topical medication from Safeway
Visited the dermatologist for my annual check up two days ago. Everything checked out, but I told her about a couple of spots (on my scalp and right side of my nose tip) that her predecessor had zapped a few times with freezey stuff. I told her they still get scaly or scabbly from time to time, but they never bleed, so she prescribed a topical “chemotherapy” drug to apply once a day for four weeks, just to rule out precancerous conditions in both spots. She says the medicine won’t injure healthy cells and that I probably won’t feel a thing if there are no pre-cancerous cells there, but if there are, the medicine will dissolve it out of there. She wants me to use the topical for a full month even if I don’t have a reaction to it.
If I do get a reaction — if the areas become inflamed, painful, or sore — that’s normal and just lets me know the chemotherapy is working as expected. But if it gets too uncomfortable, I’m supposed to stop applying the medicine until the area settles down, but to keep doing so, off and on, until I’ve done it for a total of one month, and then revisit with her again on March 28th so she can see what the areas look like then.
I have to be sure no critters rub up against or lick the areas I apply it to because it’s toxic when ingested.
I’ve applied it the first time just minutes ago and, so far, there has been no reaction, so that’s good news. I just have to remember to keep my hands off my nose, something I taught myself during the early years of COVID, but I don’t always adhere to it now, so I’m training myself again.
Always make sure you get the lowest priced effective meds possible!
My dermatologist told me that if the pharmacist charged more than $50 for the regimen to let her know, because she could prescribe something else. (So, my question is, why didn’t she just do that from the outset? Do they get a percentage of the profits?) Mine came it at $98, so I called to let her know and they precribed something else that was $98 to start but that, with my drug plan, my copay was just $15.00. Score!
Lisa Twining is designing the cover for my new book
Lisa is working on my new bookcover. She submitted at least six ideas for the cover image and I settled on this one:
I like it especially because the gal is in the lead because most of my reading fans are women, and many of them are trailblazers in their own right. I’m looking forward to having it go live shortly after the first of the year…
It’s a frightening time for those of us who realize how fragile democracies are
Just finished reading Liz Cheney’s new book OATH AND HONOR: a Memoir and a Warning. In late September, I read ENOUGH, Cassidy Hutchinson’s book about her time in the White House serving TFG’s Chief of Staff Mark Meadows. I want to keep January 6th 2021 top of mind so I don’t falter when it comes to staying active and encouraging my friends and associates to Vote Blue (as never before) in 2024. TFG and his allies in government need to be kept as far away from seats of governance as it’s possible to be. Both of these books underscore that message and they are detailed fascinating reads from Republican women. (The vast majority of the January 6th commission’s subjects/inteviewees were Republicans, too, so this has never been the “Democrat (sic) witch hunt” which the prepetrators of the attempted coup has characterized it as being.)
I keep my copy of THE JANUARY 6TH COMMISSION REPORT on my living room desk at all times, in case anyone else decides to actually do some historical research before they vote in 2024. (Fat chance of that in the family memebers I have who voted for Trump both times. They’ve drunk the koolaid and ignore the facts.)
